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we'd already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nig. the night he got his orders i shoveled around the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies until 2:00 am. i sealed them in a plastic ziploc bags. when he found them in the counter he came in the bedroom with tears in his eyes. he moaned i don't want to see any more dead people. he had only told me once about the hundreds and burned of mangled corpses he'd seen as a platoon leader during the gulf war. at the end of the exhausting 100-ground war mike's unit was making its final drive east when it ran directly across the highway of death. the iraqis fleeing kuwait city had jammed highway 80 as they tried to get back to safety. mike and his soldiers arrived upon the scene just four hours after the road was attacked by sorties of coalition aircraft. vehicles were smoking, some licked by orange flame. the orange stank of burning fuel and flesh. he described the sight there were prayer rugs, televisions, candles, silver war, women'
we'd already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nig. the night he got his orders i shoveled around the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies until 2:00 am. i sealed them in a plastic ziploc bags. when he found them in the counter he came in the bedroom with tears in his eyes. he moaned i don't want to see any more dead people. he had only told me once about the hundreds and burned of mangled corpses he'd seen as a platoon...
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but they can't tell us exactly what the chemical is. major decisions today involving michael jackson's children and his money. first, the kids. a judge in california today named jackson's mother, catherine, as the permanent guardian of the three children who range in age from 7 to 12. it was jackson's original wish for her -- his mother to be the guardian according to the will that was put together in 2002. the kids have been living with their grandmother since jackson's death in june. the judge also granted monthly allowances to michael jackson's kids as well as his mother. the amounts were not made public. there are reports that michael jackson's estate is worth me
but they can't tell us exactly what the chemical is. major decisions today involving michael jackson's children and his money. first, the kids. a judge in california today named jackson's mother, catherine, as the permanent guardian of the three children who range in age from 7 to 12. it was jackson's original wish for her -- his mother to be the guardian according to the will that was put together in 2002. the kids have been living with their grandmother since jackson's death in june. the...
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or even use o help ay down your credit ard balance. it's one of the many ways we make saving money in tough times a whole lot easier. announcer: no surprises. no shocks. dulcolax stool softener provides stimulant-free constipation relief that's grdual and comfortable, like nature intended. dulcolax stool softener. feeling free to be. singers: feelin' free. shopping online can hep save. doing it with bank of america ca help save a lot more. up to 20% cash back from over 300 online retailers with our add it up program. just sign up and use your bank of america debit or credit card when .you shop online. it's one of the many ways we make saving money in tough times a whole lot easier. >>> overseas stock markets are mixed. tokyo's nikkei average ticked down four points today. hong kong's hang seng is higher. in london the ftse opened higher. wall street opens the books on august after the dow had its best july in 20 years. the benchmark added another 79 points last week to close the month at 9,171. the nasdaq climbed 12 points to close at
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investigators found his skeletal remains. >> i guess you could use the word bittersweet. you could certainly say it's good that there is closure, because the family has been up and down all these years. >> reporter: for the navy and the nation, speier's return is both a sad and proud moment. >> captain speicher was our shipmate and we wanted to bring him home and today we did that. >> reporter: jeremy hubbard, abc news. >>> president obama attends a celebration today for the new g.i. bill, the first since the 9/11 attacks. the government will spend nearly $80 billion in the next decade to offer veterans full college tuition at a state university, housing and a thousand dollar annual textbook allowance, the most extensive education assistance program authorized since the original bill was designed in 1944. >>> torrential rains triggered flash flooding in northeast on sunday. some of the heaviest rain fell on the philadelphia suburb of gladwyn. an entire month's of rainfall drenched the area when an expressway was closed by much of the day by rivers of hud and debris. >>> f
investigators found his skeletal remains. >> i guess you could use the word bittersweet. you could certainly say it's good that there is closure, because the family has been up and down all these years. >> reporter: for the navy and the nation, speier's return is both a sad and proud moment. >> captain speicher was our shipmate and we wanted to bring him home and today we did that. >> reporter: jeremy hubbard, abc news. >>> president obama attends a celebration...
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joining us from washington is michael williams. thank you for joining us. how do you think he compares with the previous incumbent? do you think he will take any new direction on afghanistan? >> the thought is that he will be more of a general then a secretary. the last secretary general had a difficult time. rasmussen is a former prime minister and is used to getting what he wants and being a leader. there's hope we will get a stronger leadership from the new secretary-general. his first priority will be wrapping up the mission in afghanistan, especially the trading aspects with the afghan national army, and tried to keep the alliance in a cohesive way. >> a big difficulty is to get more troops from all the different countries to do that training, but also to prepare the public for a change in tactics where a deal could be done. and many of the near-term objectives are really ditched. >> yes, the leadership in europe sold the mission in afghanistan to the public, basis of the reconstruction and humanitarian mission. there will be some pullback from that. t
joining us from washington is michael williams. thank you for joining us. how do you think he compares with the previous incumbent? do you think he will take any new direction on afghanistan? >> the thought is that he will be more of a general then a secretary. the last secretary general had a difficult time. rasmussen is a former prime minister and is used to getting what he wants and being a leader. there's hope we will get a stronger leadership from the new secretary-general. his first...
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what else have you got for us, ellie? >> we learned not only were the dea, lapd and las vegas police there looking for anything regarding michael jackson's treatment, they were also looking for correspondence with other doctors. they list six of them here. dr. klein, who we've heard about before, michael jackson's personal dermatologist. i assume the same dr. klein. dr. metzger, dr. adams. dr. mark tadrisi, dr. randy rosen. also, any correspondence with aeg. that's the group that was promoting michael jackson's concerts in london. or also the nurse practitioner, cherilyn lee. she's the woman who claims that michael jackson was begging her for the drug propofol. >> let me clarify. you're saying they were looking for any correspondence related to those people or did they find correspondence related to those people? >> they were looking for it. it's not clear if they found it, but they were looking for any correspondence with michael jackson or any of those aliases as well as the doctors i just mentioned. >> of course, the t
what else have you got for us, ellie? >> we learned not only were the dea, lapd and las vegas police there looking for anything regarding michael jackson's treatment, they were also looking for correspondence with other doctors. they list six of them here. dr. klein, who we've heard about before, michael jackson's personal dermatologist. i assume the same dr. klein. dr. metzger, dr. adams. dr. mark tadrisi, dr. randy rosen. also, any correspondence with aeg. that's the group that was...
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carl will join us to tell us what to expect. more for the upside? >> you got that right. a new month for the markets. we'll count down to the friday job numbers. our guest host today richard bernstein. plus, black box's rob dole. hotel operator lowe's. the cash for clunkers program may be about to stall unless the senate approves another $2 billion to keep the incentives going. that as auto makers get ready to roll out sales. we'll get expectations for the rest of the big three. senator bob corker of the banking committee on getting the fdic more power to unwind these bank holding companies. going to be a busy week. we'll start it off here. >> look forward to seeing it. >> we're not quite down yet. we'll look at the trading day ahead on wall street when we come back after the break. >>> the head sales trader at world spreads, joining us for a look at trading ahead. today we'll get pmi. we're going to get auto sales. we've got great pmi out of china and out of the euro zone. we're seeing as a result ail heading to a new high, back above 70. are people a little too heady ab
carl will join us to tell us what to expect. more for the upside? >> you got that right. a new month for the markets. we'll count down to the friday job numbers. our guest host today richard bernstein. plus, black box's rob dole. hotel operator lowe's. the cash for clunkers program may be about to stall unless the senate approves another $2 billion to keep the incentives going. that as auto makers get ready to roll out sales. we'll get expectations for the rest of the big three. senator...
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you can help us. we have a lot of sticky issues right now. >> do you have any advice on how we should behave ourselves on the hill?? >> well, i would not stay long. i think it might influence your program negatively. >> we don't want any of that to rub off and stick to us. talk to us about this plan, fdic bill you have going. the government wants to be able to put them in some sort of receivership. your idea is to not have that t option but only toly question date them? >> yeah, the administration, strangely, in their reg reform has put forth the notion of companies being too big to fail. they want the ability for the treasury secretary to take taxpayer money and to be able to keep these companies going. this is a bipartisan effort. senator warner from virginia and myself have said, no, we think failing companies ought to have the ability to fail and unwind. and i think most of you know, everyone in the country knows today that the fdic has not had the ability to unwind complex bank holding companies.
you can help us. we have a lot of sticky issues right now. >> do you have any advice on how we should behave ourselves on the hill?? >> well, i would not stay long. i think it might influence your program negatively. >> we don't want any of that to rub off and stick to us. talk to us about this plan, fdic bill you have going. the government wants to be able to put them in some sort of receivership. your idea is to not have that t option but only toly question date them?...
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thank you very much for being with us. i understand you've put together about 100 deals last week out of cash for clunkers?s? >> right. and that was only in a week. so it's been very, very successful program. >> let me ask you this. i realize you guys are in survival mode. and you worry about the details later. do you get the feeling that you are -- that the program is simply moving forward, business you would have gotten later, or is it bringing in people who wouldn't have come in? >> well, i believe it's bringing in people that wouldn't have ordinarily come in. their trade-ins aren't worth very much. these are people who would ordinarily be in the new car market. >> all right. thank you for affirming what i think, as well. as a veteran clunker owner, i know you hold on to them until you suffer a major failure like transmission or engine, otherwise you just keep putting like $500 in keeping it on the road. >> exactly. >> how, i realize you only own, well, nine dealership it is a lot of dealerships, but in your experience,
thank you very much for being with us. i understand you've put together about 100 deals last week out of cash for clunkers?s? >> right. and that was only in a week. so it's been very, very successful program. >> let me ask you this. i realize you guys are in survival mode. and you worry about the details later. do you get the feeling that you are -- that the program is simply moving forward, business you would have gotten later, or is it bringing in people who wouldn't have come in?...
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he brings them to cabinet meetings to show us examples. and jason, the director of video from the white house this morning, he says there's no limit to things we'll make. in the future you can look at behind the scenes at state dinners, interesting jobs like butlers, calligraphers, speechwriters. so you can get an inside look at the white house, go to whitehouse.gov/video. >> sounds like transparency in motion here. i wonder if one day they would ever post on this website all the letters. can you imagine? if you had access to all the letters that people are writing in? >> that would be a heck of a job. >> that would be one big website. >> all right. coming up next we're going to talk about why the so-called octomom nadya suleman is having second thoughts. (announcer) look closely at depression. what do you see? what do you feel? sadness. loss of interest. what do they see? what do they feel? depression hurts. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a prescription medication that treats many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if you
he brings them to cabinet meetings to show us examples. and jason, the director of video from the white house this morning, he says there's no limit to things we'll make. in the future you can look at behind the scenes at state dinners, interesting jobs like butlers, calligraphers, speechwriters. so you can get an inside look at the white house, go to whitehouse.gov/video. >> sounds like transparency in motion here. i wonder if one day they would ever post on this website all the letters....
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for us, storms to our east and west. let's get a traffic update. >>> four minutes from the 9:00 a.m. show. hope you join us for that. but a traffic alert to kick things off. report of an accident at branch avenue. watch for crews. to the outer loop we go, looking at a ten minute commute to make it from the outer loop to georgia. on the inner loop, going to the realtime graphics. from 95 to 66 looks like. actually 95 and the bw parkway looks nice and green toward the beltway. end with 395 taking it outside, crawling along from edsall to seminary. this just in. a report of crash activity at shirlington. over to you. >> all right. so partly to mostly sunny. a nice day today especially for august. upper 80s and around 90. not too humid. tomorrow low to mid-90s and better chance of storms. but wednesday will be a better chance of storms, 92 and -- 91. temperatures are falling in the middle 80s later in the week. big show coming up. see you for it in just over three minutes.
for us, storms to our east and west. let's get a traffic update. >>> four minutes from the 9:00 a.m. show. hope you join us for that. but a traffic alert to kick things off. report of an accident at branch avenue. watch for crews. to the outer loop we go, looking at a ten minute commute to make it from the outer loop to georgia. on the inner loop, going to the realtime graphics. from 95 to 66 looks like. actually 95 and the bw parkway looks nice and green toward the beltway. end with...
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savannah guthrie joins us with me. the president's to focus this week on the economy. >> reporter: the president and his aides were out in force this weekend talking up signs of recent improvement in the economy but also cautioning that unemployment, that most stubborn part of this recession, isn't likely to get better for at least another year. we expect another report this week. as you mentioned, the treasury secretary refused to rule out a middle class tax cut. at the same time aides here say the president has no intention of doing that. he's going to travel to elkhart, indiana again this week, a town very hard hit by the recession, with double-digit unemployment. he wants to show that focus on the economy. also continuing to fight for health care and congress is about to go out of session. that fight moves out of washington, into congressmen's home districts and certainly on to the airways. >>> a bombing in afghanistan this morning killed at least ten people and wounded a district police chief who was the target of
savannah guthrie joins us with me. the president's to focus this week on the economy. >> reporter: the president and his aides were out in force this weekend talking up signs of recent improvement in the economy but also cautioning that unemployment, that most stubborn part of this recession, isn't likely to get better for at least another year. we expect another report this week. as you mentioned, the treasury secretary refused to rule out a middle class tax cut. at the same time aides...
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finally use a gps navigation system and use the voice. maybe it is an annoying accent, but still not looking at that gps unit, using the voice helps you keeps focused on the road. >> what about the phone? >> the phone is a big distraction. if you have a co-driver, let that person handle it. focus on driving. even hands-free. even the radio is a distraction. even looking at the gps is a distrags. there are statistics say every two seconds you take your eyes on the wheel is a danger. texting. too much after distraction. >> you hope you don't but you break down. >> first thing is keep your wits about you. don't get frustrated or angry at the car. you'll make poor decisions. keep your family in the car. the family should definitely stay in the car. you should pull the car off to the side if you can. drive it off the shoulder but make the car visible, raise the hood, put out flares, put out warning devices, keep flashers on. >> never cross the freeway or highway. >> don't run across the highway. use your cell phone to call 911. if you're on a
finally use a gps navigation system and use the voice. maybe it is an annoying accent, but still not looking at that gps unit, using the voice helps you keeps focused on the road. >> what about the phone? >> the phone is a big distraction. if you have a co-driver, let that person handle it. focus on driving. even hands-free. even the radio is a distraction. even looking at the gps is a distrags. there are statistics say every two seconds you take your eyes on the wheel is a danger....
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don't use irritating products when using epiduo. overexposure to sun, sunlamps, extreme wind or cold may increase the risk for irritation. go to truthaboutzits.com and learn how to pay no more than $20 for your epiduo prescription. awesome! to learn more about epiduo gel talk to your doctor, >> the pentagon confirmed remains found in iraq were those of a navy pilot missing since the beginning of the first gulf war. >> here from the abc news vault the story of captain michael scott spiker from "nightline" april 18, 2003. >> announcer: from abc news this is "nightline." >> one mystery lingers from the first gulf war, the case of navy pilot scott spiker. >> i just want a straight answer. what happened to my brother? just simple and plain, answer that question. >> i'm scott spiker out here on saratoga. >> reporter: cheryl long is the sister of scott piker, the first pilot shot down over iraq in the gulf war in january 1991. >> all around he was a fantastic pilot. >> reporter: like spiker, barry hull was in an elite squadron of fighter p
don't use irritating products when using epiduo. overexposure to sun, sunlamps, extreme wind or cold may increase the risk for irritation. go to truthaboutzits.com and learn how to pay no more than $20 for your epiduo prescription. awesome! to learn more about epiduo gel talk to your doctor, >> the pentagon confirmed remains found in iraq were those of a navy pilot missing since the beginning of the first gulf war. >> here from the abc news vault the story of captain michael scott...